The next morning, the heavy snowfall that had been falling for three days and three nights finally stopped!

The mountains that were originally full of clear and green have been covered in silver, and the golden early sun is slanting down from the east, gilding the snow with a faint golden light.

At seven o'clock in the morning, Jiang Xiaobai got up on time to wash and add another piece of new coal to the fire.

After freshening up, he opened the door of the hall, and a fresh and cold air lifted people's spirits, Jiang Xiaobai stretched his waist, and then picked up a shovel and shoveled up snow in the yard.

The snow in the yard has been piled up nearly a foot thick, and if you don't clean it up, it will freeze, and it is easy to fall when you step on it.

It happened that the weather was good today, so Jiang Xiaobai began to clean up in the yard one by one.

In the middle of the courtyard there is a bare peach blossom tree, and a slender ice pendant half a foot long hangs on the book, like an ice tree, which has a feeling of sparkling in the early sun.

Jiang Xiaobai thinks it's pretty good-looking.

After about twenty minutes of clearing, the snow in the yard was almost cleared, when the sound of footsteps on the snow was heard outside the yard.

"Is the little brother up?"

A slightly rough mountain voice sounded outside the courtyard gate, and there was a knock on the courtyard door, making a knocking sound.

Jiang Xiaobai quickly pulled the bolt and opened the door.

"Uncle Qiangzi, what's the matter with looking for me early in the morning?"

Seeing the visitor, Jiang Xiaobai smiled lightly and let go.

The person who came was the son of the village doctor Chen Lao, named Chen Qiang, a rough man in his forties.

"Today's weather is fine, my family is going to go to the town to buy some New Year's goods, my father wants me to call you, little brother, and ask if you need to go together?"

Chen Qiang stomped the snow on his feet, the snow on the mountain was too thick, and his trouser legs were wet.

"Oh, okay, uncle, you wait for me for a while, I'll clean up and wake up the fawn and go down the mountain. ”

Jiang Xiaobai didn't think about it, so he agreed, he hadn't bought New Year's goods yet, so he thought about going to the market in the next few days, just in time.

As he spoke, he led Chen Qiang to the house, took a cup of hot tea, and called Xiaolu to get up.

The little girl who was still wrapped in the quilt heard that she was going to the market to buy New Year's goods, and she jumped up from the bed excitedly.

It took a few minutes to clean up the deer, Jiang Xiaobai took the basket and went to the cellar, loaded some Chinese medicinal materials into it, and prepared to take it to the market to sell and earn some pocket money.

After cleaning up, Jiang Xiaobai took Jiang Xiaolu and Chen Qiang down the mountain, and of course, the big yellow dog at home followed inseparably.

"Little brother, you should also buy a mobile phone, now that times have changed, this thing is better than anything else, this is my son came back from winter vacation to buy it for me, it's quite fashionable I can't get used to it." ”

Walking on the way down the mountain, Chen Qiang took out a mobile phone from his pocket and smiled straightly, which was full of joy for his son to buy things for him.

This is one of the most common psychology of parents towards their children!

"It seems that Chen Yuan is very filial to you, uncle, but I don't need this thing, and there is no one to contact. ”

Jiang Xiaobai smiled, he really doesn't use a mobile phone, he lives alone in the mountains, he doesn't have any relatives and friends, and there is only one old way for him to worry about, but people have those two cranes as messengers, and the force is much higher than that of a mobile phone.

"But little brother, you are so young, are you willing to stay in this mountain forever and not go out to explore the world? The city outside is really magnanimous, I sent my baby to college last year, and finally saw the world of the city, there are more cars than people, and the road is not much narrower than this emerald river..."

Chen Qiang, a middle-aged man, seemed to know something terrible like a child, and told Jiang Xiaobai what he had seen and heard in the big city.

And this is actually the third time that Jiang Xiaobai has heard this, and many of the older generations of mountain people have hardly gone out of the mountains, at most they go to nearby counties and towns. It's just that in recent years, the province has been engaged in tourism construction, and mountain villages with good mountain and water resources have been welfare, which is exactly the case in Taohuali, where the younger generation no longer fishes and hunts for a living like the older generation, and all go out to work or afford to go to college.

However, young people don't like to communicate with the elders, and Uncle Chen sent his son to college last year, and when he met people, he would tell the elders in the village about what he saw and heard in the big city as a strange thing, and he never got tired of talking about it.

Although Jiang Xiaobai smiled bitterly in his heart, he naturally did not interrupt the interest of others to speak, but there were some ripples in his heart.

He thought of what the old Tao told him yesterday, the aura is in the world, the world is about to come out, how should he go in the future?

Before, he had never thought about this question, and last night, he thought about it all night on the edge of the cliff, and he didn't come up with anything.

I couldn't help but feel a little melancholy in my heart, Jiang Xiaobai was confused for the first time in twenty-one years!

In this way, along the way, Chen Qiang spoke like a chatterbox, Jiang Xiaobai accosted without a word, went down the mountain, and came to the Jade River.

The Chen family's boat is a sailboat, two zhang long, meters wide, and a roof in the middle, which can be regarded as a "rich family" in the village.

On the boat, the Chen family of four was there, Chen Lao, Chen's daughter-in-law and aunt, grandson Chen Yuan, plus Chen Qiang, the family went to the market to catch up with the excitement of the New Year.

When Jiang Xiaobai got on the boat, the Chen family all accosted enthusiastically, only Chen Yuan, the son of the Chen family who was studying in college, shouted "uncle" in a low voice after two stalks.

It's no wonder that people are reluctant, Chen Yuan is a month older than Jiang Xiaobai, and he is still a college student, but he can only call Jiang Xiaobai "uncle" in a proper manner.

This is the head of the family, Chen Lao, who has a hard rule, even Chen Qiang, who is in his forties, has to call Jiang Xiaobai "little brother", and Chen Yuan is naturally a generation lower.

It is precisely because of Chen Lao, who has a lot of prestige in the village, that his son and grandson call Jiang Xiaobai so, and the villagers in Peach Blossom, no matter how old or young they call him, will be used to shouting "Brother Jiang" and "Uncle Jiang".

In the final analysis, the Chen family was so polite to Jiang Xiaobai, the reason was that Chen Lao had been instructed by Jiang Xiaobai's grandfather to learn some medical skills, and knew that the old man was a master outside the world, so he was very respectful to him. Later, when the old man died, Jiang Xiaobai inherited the old man's temperament and medical skills, and asked Chen Lao to respectfully shout "Little Mister".

People treat them with courtesy, they will treat people with courtesy, Jiang Xiaobai will not let people lose face, people call others, they call their own, so it is natural for the two families to get along.

After he got on the boat, he said hello one by one, and then sat in the shed of the boat and chatted with the Chen family.

The motorized boat drove very fast on the river, but it was only more than half an hour, and it was only a few miles from the town by water.

At this time, the boat slowed down and docked to the river.

Next to the river is a village called Shiqiao Village, and two people are shouting on the shore to hitchhike a boat.

The people in the mountains are sincere, and it is convenient to give people convenience, and Uncle Qiang, who is at the helm, sees someone shouting, so he pulls the boat to the shore.

Seeing this, Jiang Xiaobai got out of the canopy when he had nothing to do, stood at the stern of the boat, and looked at the surrounding scenery.

On the shore, he saw an old man sitting in a small boat fishing.

I heard a hoarse and rough song coming from the other side!

On the other side of the river seven or eight meters away, an old man with a woodcutter on his back, carrying a bamboo basket on his back, was walking up the mountain humming a hoarse and rough mountain song.